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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
been tacitly acknowledged , and that a church , which pretends to " power divine , " had become better in fact than she is in her dogmatic teaching . The mind that meditates no ill to others , cannot imagine that the fallacies of former times , for which there might be excuse , can yet be in force and
as mischievous as ever . Yet so it is . The ignorance , which would chain astronomy to the wheels of its lumbering chariot , is still as potent for evil as ever . Rome is to this hour , Avhat she has ever been ,
SEMPER EADEM ! We speak not ofthe ritual of this Church , for which Freemasonry has done so much , by preparing mystic fanes , the " long drawn aisle , " and " the fretted roofs , " to Avhich the odours of fuming incense ascend unhallowed . That
would be to touch upon a subject , Avhich Freemasonry scrupulously avoids , for she knoAvs no difference of sect or creed . All the members of her society are bound together by ties , which dissolve the heart-burning animosities of an odium iheologicum . Neither do we treat of this subject
politically . That would be even still more in contravention of the directions of a system , Avhich discards all reference whatever to this exciting topic , the moment it begins its work , and calls its members to order . But , although we would equally avoid both these questions , —
" Scvllam atque Charybdim , " ( for , "Quid Syrtcs , ant Scylla nobis , quid vasta Charybdis Profuit ? " ) there is yet another ground , upon which it is our painful
duty to " tell a plain unvarnished tale . " The principles of the Church of Rome and those of Freemasonry , ever since the persecuting dogmas of the for-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
been tacitly acknowledged , and that a church , which pretends to " power divine , " had become better in fact than she is in her dogmatic teaching . The mind that meditates no ill to others , cannot imagine that the fallacies of former times , for which there might be excuse , can yet be in force and
as mischievous as ever . Yet so it is . The ignorance , which would chain astronomy to the wheels of its lumbering chariot , is still as potent for evil as ever . Rome is to this hour , Avhat she has ever been ,
SEMPER EADEM ! We speak not ofthe ritual of this Church , for which Freemasonry has done so much , by preparing mystic fanes , the " long drawn aisle , " and " the fretted roofs , " to Avhich the odours of fuming incense ascend unhallowed . That
would be to touch upon a subject , Avhich Freemasonry scrupulously avoids , for she knoAvs no difference of sect or creed . All the members of her society are bound together by ties , which dissolve the heart-burning animosities of an odium iheologicum . Neither do we treat of this subject
politically . That would be even still more in contravention of the directions of a system , Avhich discards all reference whatever to this exciting topic , the moment it begins its work , and calls its members to order . But , although we would equally avoid both these questions , —
" Scvllam atque Charybdim , " ( for , "Quid Syrtcs , ant Scylla nobis , quid vasta Charybdis Profuit ? " ) there is yet another ground , upon which it is our painful
duty to " tell a plain unvarnished tale . " The principles of the Church of Rome and those of Freemasonry , ever since the persecuting dogmas of the for-